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No chance of course. But this is all calculated to put pressure on the system to affect future decision making. Pawn everything you own and bet it on Liverpool this weekend. I think we'll do well in France though

I think the match officials as a group will be terrified of having their names associated with this disaster from last weekend and will subconsciously over-compensate.

And the conversations in the rugby are fascinating. It's like the ref is going down an imaginary flow chart which he has memorised

We see ourselves as above mind games / criticism / implied criticism / admitting the possible fallibility of refs or VAR Which is one of the main reasons we'll continue to be on the receiving end of no less egregious but much less high profile "mistakes"

What they want, is for every single decision to go their way the following week. And they will get it

Can I press you on this? Surely instant gratification and mindless thrill are integral to football culture? It's not like cricket where the act of scoring gets a polite ripple of applause, or basketball where the act of scoring happens dozens of times a game and gets the sort of level of...

Look at rugby. It's miles more complicated to officiate than football. There's random s*** going on everywhere, yet the officials are obviously competent and when you're playing, spectating or on TV, any decision or review is clearly explained in a logical way and everyone has an idea what is...